Who are Madonna’s parents? Find out everything about Madonna Louise and Silvio Ciccone

Madonna was born on August 16, 1958, daughter of Madonna Louise It is Silvio Cicconein Bay City, Michigan.

Ciccone is a first-generation American of Italian descent, born in Pennsylvania in 1931. His parents went from Italy to the United States by boat and first settled in Pittsburgh, where his grandfather Madonna worked at a steel mill.

“My grandmother and grandfather didn’t speak any English,” said the singer in an interview with Teamin 1985 (via People). “They weren’t very educated, and I think in some ways they represented an old way of life that my father really didn’t want anything to do with. It’s not that he was ashamed, but he wanted to be better.” Later, Silvio moved to Michigan and began working as an engineer.

He met his future wife’s brother when he worked in the Air Force. The friendship served as a bridge for him to start a romance with Madonna Louise. Of French-Canadian origin, she “was very pretty,” said her daughter who was named after her. “I have my father’s eyes, but I have my mother’s smile and a lot of her facial structure.”

The artist’s parents married in 1955, in a Catholic church in Michigan. “Everything was about the church while everyone was sipping martinis. It was fabulous,” he recalled Madonna.

Madonna Louise welcomed six children: Anthony, Martin, Madonna, Paula, Christopher It is Melanie. She passed away in December 1963, at the age of 30, after facing breast cancer. Madonna She was only 5 years old when it happened, but she has some memories from that time: “I also remember that I knew that she had been sick for a long time with breast cancer, so she was very weak, but she kept going forward and doing the things she wanted to do. I had to do it.”

Ciccone married the family maid, Joanand had two other children, Mario It is Jennifer. Now 92 years old, he runs his own winery, Ciccone Vineyard & Winery, founded in 1995, in Michigan.